GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs Radeon R9 390

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2013
GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
Radeon R9 390
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 390
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    100%
  • Radeon R9 390
    129%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 390

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 29% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 390

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 390

The Radeon R9 390 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 780 6 GBRadeon R9 390
GPU NameGK110B (GK110-301-B1)vsGrenada (Grenada PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size561 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors7,080 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders2304vs2560
Compute Units12vs40
Core clock863 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs48vs64
TMUs192vs160

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 780 6 GBRadeon R9 390
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 780 6 GBRadeon R9 390
TDP250 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    41.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    166.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    160.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    288.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    3977.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 390
    5120.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
    13770
  • Radeon R9 390
    17820

Points (higher is better)